By now, even if you don’t consider yourself a hardware nerd, you probably know that the PlayStation 4 is significantly more powerful than the Xbox One. So now we’re going to change the conversation a bit, and discuss how much more powerful the PS4 is than the PS2. According to Sony (which produced the infographic pictured above), thanks to the PS4’s eight-core CPU, it has 43 times the processing power of the PS2! Of course, this is a completely meaningless comparison — so let’s dive in and look at things in a slightly more rational manner.

AMD’s Mantle is finally ready to break cover and we’ve got got performance figures to cover a range of scenarios, from multi-GPU configurations to ultra-mobile devices. Is this the leverage AMD has needed to break free from Intel and Nvidia?

AMD has finally taken the wraps off its upcoming 8-core ARM SoC, codenamed Seattle. Seattle (officially designated Opteron A1100) is a server-class clip, with four or eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 cores. The part, which begins sampling in March, is aimed squarely at the low-power server market, where AMD hopes that the SoC’s low cost (about one tenth the cost of competing Intel Xeon parts) can wrestle some market share from Chipzilla. Performance-wise, AMD only gives rough figures, but it appears that the top-end A1100 will be around 2.5x faster than AMD’s current low-power Jaguar-based server chip (the Opteron X2150), while maintaining the same TDP.

Battlefield 4’s Mantle update is reportedly slipping into February, due to continued problems with the underlying game. Dice remains committed to the roll-out, but fixing core gameplay has to happen first.

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